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This week, it was reported that the United States National Park Service had begun scrubbing information from its exhibits ...
Since Trump took office, the park service, an agency charged with preserving American history, has changed how its website ...
Richard Kreitner's 'Fear No Pharaoh" unpacks the myths surrounding Jews and slavery in and around the Civil War and its ...
The president’s recent executive order directed at the institution will face a lot of procedural headwinds before he can MAGA ...
Soviet Union’s cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin became the first human in history to travel to space. Lasting there for just 108 ...
Recent changes by the Trump administration are affecting how US museums and institutions tell the nation's multicultural ...
Today, this question bitterly divides the Jewish people. But it is not the first time it has done so. Passover begins this ...
"When we see efforts to erase our history...it's actually going to make us weaker [and] less informed," said Alan Spear tells ...
Explore the revolutionary act of saving money and building generational wealth by African American ancestors. Discover their stories of freedom and resistance.
New research shows that when the whaling industry in the US produced more products, the proportion of slaves also declined in ...
It’s impossible for the Smithsonian to truthfully tell the American story without mentioning racism, sexism and other forms ...
A US Senator wants to replace Andrew Jackson, who kept scores of slaves at his Tennessee plantation, on the front of the $20 bill with abolitionist Harriet Tubman. But Jackson isn’t the only one of ...